E-Class Fleet Destroyer ordered on 1st November
1932 from Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle under the 1931 Build Programs. The ship
was laid down on 15th March 1933, the same day as her sister ship HMS ENCOUNTER
also built in this shipyard. She was launched on 15th February 1934 as the
seventh RN snip to carry the name introduced for a Brig Sloop in 1760 and last
used for hired Trawler in WW1 as well as for a Boom Defence Vessel known as
ELECTRA II during WW2. Build was completed on 13th September 1934 for a cost of
£253,350 excluding the items supplied by the Admiralty such as guns and communications
equipment. Her peace time service in the Home Fleet included deployment for intervention
patrol during the Spanish civil war. The ship was refitted at Sheerness in 1938
before being place in Reserve.

B a t t l e H o n o u r s

ATLANTIC 1939-40 - NORWAY 1940 - BISMARCK Action
1941 - ARCTIC 1941

H e r a l d i c D a t a

Badge: On a Field Blue, a female head proper, rising out of wavelets Silver and Green.